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Sometimes it's tough being Bond, James Bond. No privacy for movie stars these days, actor Daniel Craig laments, and it's worse than ever.

Craig graces the cover of the November Vanity Fair, promoting his third turn as Bond in the forthcoming Skyfall. Inside he talks about how fame gets in the way of a normal life, and how things are worse for movie stars today than 40 years ago when the Bond franchise was taking off.

"The difference is that, back in the day, you could go and have a drink in the bar, get drunk, fall over, have a good time, relax, whatever, and no one would know about it. But now everyone's got a camera," Craig tells VF writer Juli Weiner, echoing a lesson recently learned by famous folk as diverse as GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney and the Duchess of Cambridge.

"Not that all I want to do is get drunk in a bar, but that's an example," Craig continues. "So you can't live a normal life anymore. Because it will become public knowledge that you've whatever — gotten drunk in a bar or skinny-dipped on a beach or something. Things that normal people do occasionally."

Craig says he always has to be aware, always has to be on his best behavior. "I've done a lot of things in my life. But you have to think in that way. Which is sad, because I like bars."

The interview quotes Craig's colleagues and co-stars, the incomparable Judi Dench, for instance, praising Craig's great sense of humor. But he's plainly got just good sense, even without a paparazzi camera trained on him 24/7.

"It's amazing how many times I've sat in interviews like this in a bar or a hotel, and it's 11 o'clock in the morning and someone sends a martini over," he says, laughing. "And it's like, Really? It's 11 o'clock! Cheers! I'm not going to drink it."

The November issue of VF will be on newsstands in New York and Los Angeles on Thursday, and everywhere else on Oct. 9.